US5346105A - Dispenser for granular material - Google Patents

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US5346105A
US5346105A US08/176,569 US17656993A US5346105A US 5346105 A US5346105 A US 5346105A US 17656993 A US17656993 A US 17656993A US 5346105 A US5346105 A US 5346105A
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Priority to DE69400994T priority patent/DE69400994T2/de
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Priority to BR9404207A priority patent/BR9404207A/pt
Priority to JP6326090A priority patent/JP2634151B2/ja
Priority to KR2019940037738U priority patent/KR970001761Y1/ko
Priority to FI940645U priority patent/FI2047U1/fi
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47G—HOUSEHOLD OR TABLE EQUIPMENT
    • A47G19/00—Table service
    • A47G19/24—Shakers for salt, pepper, sugar, or the like
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G01—MEASURING; TESTING
    • G01F—MEASURING VOLUME, VOLUME FLOW, MASS FLOW OR LIQUID LEVEL; METERING BY VOLUME
    • G01F11/00—Apparatus requiring external operation adapted at each repeated and identical operation to measure and separate a predetermined volume of fluid or fluent solid material from a supply or container, without regard to weight, and to deliver it
    • G01F11/10—Apparatus requiring external operation adapted at each repeated and identical operation to measure and separate a predetermined volume of fluid or fluent solid material from a supply or container, without regard to weight, and to deliver it with measuring chambers moved during operation
    • G01F11/26—Apparatus requiring external operation adapted at each repeated and identical operation to measure and separate a predetermined volume of fluid or fluent solid material from a supply or container, without regard to weight, and to deliver it with measuring chambers moved during operation wherein the measuring chamber is filled and emptied by tilting or inverting the supply vessel, e.g. bottle-emptying apparatus
    • G01F11/261—Apparatus requiring external operation adapted at each repeated and identical operation to measure and separate a predetermined volume of fluid or fluent solid material from a supply or container, without regard to weight, and to deliver it with measuring chambers moved during operation wherein the measuring chamber is filled and emptied by tilting or inverting the supply vessel, e.g. bottle-emptying apparatus for fluent solid material

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  • Granular foodstuffs for example, sugar
  • a container with an appropriate pouring or dispensing spout.
  • the basic container normally provides for an uncontrolled pouring of the contents through the spout with any controlling of the dose requiring the utilization of a separate utensil, such as a measuring cup, a spoon or the like. Should a large quantity of material be required, the uncontrolled or free-pouring dispensing is of course a highly desirable feature.
  • dispensers While it is not unknown for dispensers to incorporate the capability of dispensing measured amounts and, upon adjustment provide for free pouring, such dispensers are rather awkward or not readily convertible, requiring, as an example, forcing a dispensing tube through the condiment to be dispensed, or requiring an actual removal of the measuring insert. As such, the known dispensers do not readily adapt for more universal use, for example in a restaurant setting or the like.
  • the dispenser of the present invention provides, through a simple manual adjustment, either a continuous pour or the dispensing of a measured dose, doing so without necessitating an opening of the dispenser, the removal or an addition of a component thereto, or for that matter anything more complex than a simple push-pull manipulation of the dispensing spout itself.
  • the dispenser of the invention used as desired as a sugar dispenser or the like, is easy to use, easy to pour, easy to fill and maintains the contents free from moisture and dust.
  • the dispenser while equally usable for any number of granular or powdery materials, will, for purposes of description, hereinafter be generally referred to as a sugar dispenser and, in the nature of a conventional sugar dispenser, comprises an elongate body defining an internal storage chamber open at one end to receive a pouring or dispensing spout mounted to a cap threaded to the container.
  • the dispenser of the invention differs from the conventional sugar dispenser or the like by incorporating a separately mounted dosing insert which is mounted with the upper end of the storage chamber and secured in position by the spout cap.
  • the insert includes a measuring cup inward of and aligned with the inner end of the spout.
  • the spout or nozzle in turn, differing from the conventional spout, mounts by means of a flexible membrane for selective longitudinal movement relative to the measuring cup between a first dosing position wherein the inner end of the spout is below the upper end of the measuring cup and adapted to receive the sugar or the like solely from the measuring cup, and a second continuous pour position wherein the inner end of the spout is spaced above the measuring cup and in free flowing communication with the storage chamber for continuous pouring.
  • the dispenser is completed by a closure or overcap frictionally engaged over the spout cap and providing a seal for the spout in either of the adjusted positions thereof.
  • the flexible membrane which mounts the spout is relatively stiff and, through concentric hinge portions both at the spout and at the outer mounting collar, snaps into and is retained within an overcenter position in both the free pour position and the dosing position.
  • the dosing or measuring cup is retained in spaced relation below the top of the container by a "spider" support system which allows for free passage of the sugar either into the dosing cup or for free flow through the spout.
  • FIG. 1 is a perspective view of the dispenser of the invention with the overcap exploded therefrom;
  • FIG. 2 is a vertical cross-sectional view through the dispenser with the overcap mounted and the spout in the continuous pour position;
  • FIG. 3 is an enlarged cross-sectional detail illustrating the mounted relationship between the measuring cup insert, the spout cap and the overcap on the container;
  • FIG. 4 is an exploded perspective view of the container and dispensing components
  • FIG. 5 is a vertical cross-sectional view with the overcap removed and the spout in the dosing position
  • FIG. 6 is a perspective view of the upper portion of the container with the spout in the dosing position.
  • the dispenser 10 includes three basic components plus an overcap 12.
  • the components include a container 14, a dosing insert 16 and a spout cap 18.
  • the container 14, as illustrated, may be in the shape of a standard sugar dispenser, that is of vertically elongate cylindrical construction with an open mouth 20 to the interior storage chamber 22 defined therein.
  • the container is preferably of clear polycarbonate or the like to enable a ready determination of the supply of pourable material remaining therein.
  • the surface may have a finely etched finish to avoid scratches and include an indicator 24 of the maximum filling level. Such indicator can be an edge defined by the etched finish, a minor shoulder, or the like.
  • the top of the container is provided with an externally threaded neck 26 with the container, from the maximum fill line 24, having the outer surface thereof, as at 28, flaring slightly outward and upward to define a shoulder 30 at the base of the threaded neck 26.
  • the dosing insert 16 comprises a central dosing cup 32, of any practical size, but preferably, for sugar, holding approximately 3 grams or the equivalent of a standard sugar cube.
  • the top of the cup 32 flares slightly outward to form a discharge mouth and is integrally formed with an openwork support or spider 34 which consists of upwardly and outwardly flaring ribs 36 peripherally spaced about the cup and defining a series of rather large free access openings 38.
  • the support or spider 34 terminates in an integral annular outer support lip 40 which is laterally directed to overlie the lip 42 which defines the container mouth 20 peripherally thereabout with the cup 32 centrally positioned within the container.
  • the cup is retained within the upper portion of the container with the bottom of the cup at approximately the maximum fill level of the container.
  • the spout or nozzle cap 18 includes a central vertically elongate spout or nozzle 44 extending coaxially through and integrally joined to a circular or disk-like flexible membrane 46 with the spout 44 extending both above and below the membrane for an appreciable distance, preferably slightly greater above the membrane.
  • the outer periphery of the membrane 46 is integrally formed with an outer depending peripheral collar 48.
  • the collar 48 about the lower periphery thereof, is integrally formed with an outwardly offset depending internally threaded flange 50 defining a downwardly directed retaining shoulder 52 which engages and clamps the dosing component lip 40 against the container rim 42 upon a threading of the flange 50 to the externally threaded neck 26 of the container 14, thus completing the mounting of the dispensing assembly.
  • the outer annular surface of the flange 50 can be slightly upwardly and outwardly flared, corresponding to the flare of the container portion 28.
  • the flexible membrane 46 which is relatively stiff so as to retain itself and the spout 44 in the two adjusted positions thereof as shall be explained presently, includes inner and outer annular integral living hinges or hinge portions 54 and 56 respectively adjacent the spout 44 and collar 48 to enhance the flexibility of the membrane 46.
  • FIGS. 2 and 5 The two positions of the membrane 46, and hence the spout 44, will be noted in FIGS. 2 and 5.
  • the membrane 46 is outwardly flexed or domed in an overcenter position which retains the position until manually moved therefrom.
  • the lower or intake end 60 of the spout is aligned with or slightly above the spider or openwork support system 34 whereby, upon an inverting of the container, the contents thereof will freely flow from the container storage chamber 22 through the openings 38 and through the inlet end 60 of the spout 44 for a continuous dispensing from the remote outlet end of the spout.
  • the position of the membrane 46 will be readily apparent from a viewing of the top of the dispenser, and will provide an immediate indication as to whether the dispenser is in the pouring position or the dosing position. Further, as will be appreciated from FIG. 2, the overcap 12 will seal the upper end of the container and dispensing assembly in either of the dispensing positions of the spout 44. As will also be appreciated from the detailed cross-section of FIG.
  • the overcap be snap-locked and frictionally engaged to the collar 48 of the spout cap 18 by interengaging minor enlargements or lugs 62 and 64 provided respectively peripherally about the collar 48 and peripherally about the inner face of the overcap 12 at the lower edge thereof which in turn rests on the defined shoulder immediately below the collar 48 and above the internally threaded flange 50.
  • the area volume above the dosing cup 32 be such so as to ensure an appropriate dose of material within the cup 32 without bringing the level thereof higher than the inwardly offset inlet end 60 of the spout 44 so as to normally avoid the necessity, in moving the spout 44 to its dosing position, of forcing the spout into the material.
  • the size of the dosing cup 32 be so adjusted, relative to the spout, as to provide for the dispensing of an amount of sugar equal to approximately a standard sugar cube.
  • the spout cap 18 In order to fill the container, one need merely unscrew the spout cap 18, lift out the insert 16, and pour the material, whether sugar, chocolate granules, milk powder, or the like, into the container to the preferred level, preferably at the lowermost position of the dosing cup 32. The dispensing components are then quickly assembled and the dispenser ready for use.
  • the spout is manually pulled upward with the membrane snap-locking into its outer domed position, and a free pouring of the contents is possible.
  • the spout is pushed inward with the membrane, again snap-locking into its concave position.
  • the container is then turned upside down, and then right side up to fill the cup 32.
  • a single dose can then be dispensed by again turning the container over with this action, following by a rerighting of the container, again automatically filling the dose cup.
  • all of the components of the dispenser preferably be made of appropriate non-food contaminating synthetic resinous materials.
  • granular is used in a generic sense to include flowable solids, including granules such as regular sugar, powders such as powdered sugar, and the like.
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US08/176,569 US5346105A (en) 1993-12-30 1993-12-30 Dispenser for granular material
IL11097194A IL110971A (en) 1993-12-30 1994-09-14 Dispenser for granular material
ZA947087A ZA947087B (en) 1993-12-30 1994-09-14 Dispenser for granular material
TW083108511A TW266197B (zh) 1993-12-30 1994-09-15
ES94114898T ES2094611T3 (es) 1993-12-30 1994-09-21 Dispensador para material granulado.
DE69400994T DE69400994T2 (de) 1993-12-30 1994-09-21 Spender für rörmige Stoffe
EP94114898A EP0662296B1 (en) 1993-12-30 1994-09-21 Dispenser for granular material
AT94114898T ATE145534T1 (de) 1993-12-30 1994-09-21 Spender für rörmige stoffe
DK94114898.3T DK0662296T3 (da) 1993-12-30 1994-09-21 Dispenser til granulatmateriale
AU74171/94A AU670210C (en) 1993-12-30 1994-09-23 Dispenser for granular material
CA002133714A CA2133714C (en) 1993-12-30 1994-10-05 Dispenser for granular material
BR9404207A BR9404207A (pt) 1993-12-30 1994-10-21 Distribuidor para escoamento continuo-seletivo e distribuição de dose única de substância granular
JP6326090A JP2634151B2 (ja) 1993-12-30 1994-12-27 顆粒状物質用小分け器
KR2019940037738U KR970001761Y1 (ko) 1993-12-30 1994-12-29 과립상 재료의 분배 장치
FI940645U FI2047U1 (fi) 1993-12-30 1994-12-30 Doserare foer korniga material
GR960403496T GR3022058T3 (en) 1993-12-30 1996-12-17 Dispenser for granular material.

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